Guillermo Mena

My work explores transience and belonging through drawing, the body, and engagement with atmospheric and geological phenomena that define a territory and its capacity to be captured and interpreted.

Through drawing experiences that embrace expanded materialities, I develop actions and reflections that question how we inhabit and interpret places from their fragile, cyclical, and ephemeral nature.

I am interested in immersing myself in diverse landscapes, with the idea of deconstructing drawing as a starting point. This translates into site-specific installations on walls, paper, and performative actions that combine charcoal drawing, graphite, digital animation, video, photography, and collage.

I reflect on the notion of home and belonging in transient spaces, guided by an inherent melancholy that delves into the balance between attachment and detachment, within the framework of a nomadic and ever-evolving practice.